Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel' Decades before Melville and Twain composed their great works, a farm hand and child seer named Joseph Smith unearthed a long-buried book from a haunted hill in western New York State, which told of an epic history of ancient Americ…
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with The Book of Mormon, it argues for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as work of American storytelling.
This title provides an interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
This title provides an interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
A groundbreaking interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
A groundbreaking interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
Presents the life of the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, from his early life in rural New York, to the visions that inspired 'The Book of Mormon', and his untimely death at the hands of a mob in 1844.
Presents the life of the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, from his early life in rural New York, to the visions that inspired 'The Book of Mormon', and his untimely death at the hands of a mob in 1844.
The Pearl of Greatest Price narrates the history of Mormonism's fourth volume of scripture, canonized in 1880. The authors track its predecessors, describe its several components, and assess their theological significance within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. F…
By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly half of them lived in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, where Smith was not only their religiou…
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. In addition to starting his own religion and creating the Book of Mormo…
